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A Dinajpur court on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of 23 people, including seven former managing directors of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), in a case filed...
The Government of India recently announced reduction of corporate income tax rates. The highlights of the announced measures are: * Reduction of tax rates for firms that do not seek...
From time to time, discussions on health care in Bangladesh take place in various forums. It is also a subject of some importance in the print media which publishes various...
During the official visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India, an agreement to export Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to the Indian state of Tripura was signed between the...
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali has said Muslim-friendly environment across the Bangladesh can be a great source to meet the growing demand of Muslim travellers....
Ethiopia found itself in the global spotlight for all the right reasons after Abiy Ahmed, its young, dynamic prime minister. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Awarded since 1901 for...
Sadia Akter Pinky, a transgender woman, has been elected vice-chairman of the Kotchandpur Upazila Parishad in Jhenaidah. She ran for the female vice-chairman’s post as a woman and secured 12,880...
The general point-to-point inflation rate reached 5.54 per cent in September last from 5.49 per cent in the previous month. The information was revealed on Tuesday at the ECNEC meeting...
The disgruntled students of BUET have called off their protests citing the ‘goodwill’ shown by the authorities by acting swiftly to ensure justice over the murder of their peer Abrar...
University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged the country’s public university authorities to strengthen security measures on campuses in the wake of recent untoward incidents. The UGC made the call in...
The results of the admission test at public and private medical colleges have been released. Over 49,000 students cleared the test for about 10,500 seats in the MBBS course in...
Human traffickers in Thailand have ignored court orders to compensate victims in more than 99pc of cases in recent years, fuelling fears that many survivors could be re-trafficked, data obtained...
Google is expected to unveil a new Pixel phone with an updated camera and an emphasis on artificial intelligence features. Google has already announced many details of the Pixel 4,...
60 people were killed by mob beating across the country in the first nine months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights body. Of...
The mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) collected over Tk 61.82 million in fine against errant vehicles and drivers for violating traffic rules for the financial year 2018-2019....
China's first domestically made polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, will start its maiden voyage to the Antarctic from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen Tuesday. Xuelong 2...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said a new list of around 50000 Rohingyas has been handed over to Myanmar to expedite Rohingya repatriation efforts. The minister disclosed this...
Data released by the General Administration of Customs Monday shows China's total trade amounted to 22.91 trillion yuan ($3.24 trillion) in the first three quarters of the year, growing 2.8...
A total of 301 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning. Of them, 92 were hospitalised in Dhaka,...
A schoolboy, who was injured in an attack by his cousin in the city’s Uttarkhan area on Monday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday. The deceased was...
South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group plans to invest 41 trillion won ($35 billion) in mobility and other auto technologies by 2025, part of which will be directed...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved two mega MRT projects -- Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (Line-1) and Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development...
Police have arrested ASM Nazmus Sadat in Dinajpur over his suspected ties to the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad. Sadat, a student of 17th batch of BUET's mechanical engineering...
China has decided to further open up its insurance and banking sectors to foreign investors by revising related regulations. Revisions to the regulations on foreign-invested insurance and banking firms have...
China's transportation industry has expanded steadily in September as an index measuring the vitality of the sector remained at a high level, according to the China Academy of Transportation Sciences....
A “Signing Ceremony” of the Redeemable, Non-Convertible and Cumulative Preference Shares up to BDT 800.00 million for Zodiac Power Chittagong Limited was held recently at a hotel in the capital....
A case was filed against 10 people on Tuesday in connection with the brutal murder of 5-year-old child at Kezaura village in Derai upazila in Sunamganj. KM Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge...
Police have been granted 10 days to grill Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, the expelled chief of Jubo League Dhaka South, in two cases involving illegal arms and drugs. His associate Enamul...
The Premier Bank Limited and Malaysia-based My Cash Online SND.BHD, inked an MOU for fintech collaboration. The ceremony was held recently at My Cash global operation office in Selangor, Malaysia....
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has launched the first ever SME Toolkit Pilot Project with BRAC Bank Limited with a commitment to work together with all the stakeholders to ensure...
Mr Md. Tariqul Azam, Managing Director (acting) of Standard Bank Limited inaugurated a two day-long workshop on “Islamic Banking: Concept, Products & Services” for the Bank’s branch Officers organized by...
Genex Infosys, the leading IT company in the country has been awarded the National ICT Awards 2019 by BASIS under the category of Inclusion and Community Services- Sustainability & Environment...
Racist abuse cast a blight over a Euro 2020 qualifier between Bulgaria and England on Monday with the match in Sofia twice halted by the referee after monkey noises and...
Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a youth in Bakultala area in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila on early Tuesday. The identity of the deceased could not be known yet. Abul Kalam...
Norway on Tuesday reported it’s first monthly trade deficit in almost two years, a rare event triggered by a sharp fall in its sale of natural gas and a decline...
Police arrested 31 people in separate drives and seized 3,215 Yaba pills from Monday midnight till Tuesday morning, reports a news agency. Mohammad Mohibul Islam Khan, Superintendent of Kurigram Police,...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 has sentenced five Gaibandha Razakars to death for their monstrous crimes against humanity committed in 1971. The first tribunal came up with the judgement today...
Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” jointly won the Booker Prize on Monday in a surprise double award in which the literary prize recognised its oldest...
A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was jailed on murder charges on Monday in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old black woman who was babysitting inside her home, the...
The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades climbed to 66 on Tuesday as rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for...
US President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from...
Nearly 0.7 million mobile phone subscribers have switched operators without changing their original 11-digit phone numbers through the mobile number portability (MNP) service in the last one year. The Bangladesh...
Four industrial units on Monday received allocation for 205 acres of land at the Mongla Economic Zone near the Mongla sea port. These are NAGA Limited, PowerPac Petroleum limited, PowerPac...
None of the businesses could submit the online VAT (value added tax) returns until now of this fiscal year due to a technical glitch in the server, officials said. Despite...
The market intermediaries have called for good governance and listing of good companies to minimise the volatility in stocks. The urging came on Monday at a meeting, where top brokers,...
Suspected cartel hitmen shot dead more than a dozen police in an ambush in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, authorities said on Monday, in one of the bloodiest attacks...
Four suspected forest robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the Sundarbans under Koyra upazila early Tuesday. Two of the deceased were...
Depositors have urged the central bank high-ups to take initiatives to return their investment from the liquidated People's Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFSL) by December 2019. The appeal was...
Sanofi Bangladesh Limited has officially informed the decision of closing operations in the country to its officials and employees, sources said. High-ups of the France-based global drug giant, including its...
The government is likely to approve today the country's third and fourth largest projects taken up for building two mass rapid transit lines in Dhaka at a combined cost of...
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